Detroit Indianapolis is a surprising city. Not having been there for some years, the first surprise to me was the modern airport built over the last decade that first left me wondering what I might have been overlooking in the heartland. The second surprise was realizing how big the city had become, now over 850,000 …
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Facebook Could be a Powerful Organizing Recruitment Tool, If We Could Afford
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/All_that_we_are.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There was an intriguing and in some ways unsettling piece in the New York Times recently about the growing power of Facebook and friends called “The Ads That Know Everything” by Burt Helm. The title of the piece in the online version lowered the “fright” …
The City of the Future is Not a Technical Problem
New Orleans We have been lucky the last month. ACORN International has enjoyed the help of a smart and adventuresome young woman, Luba Batembergska, from Sofia, Bulgaria with wide interests in social justice, environment, education, and social welfare. We have tried to embed her deeply in various organizing field experiences to give her tools and …